For a couple of months in 2017, Martin Keogh spent 12-hour days picking over the charred remains of Grenfell Tower apartments.

Dr Paul Bolger offers insights into how UCC’s environmental research has won deserved global acclaim.

One of the oldest buildings at University College Cork (UCC) has opened for the first time as a state of the art, one-stop-shop for students following a multi-million euro transformation.

A change of mindset among Garda top brass is key if the force is to become a more community-focussed police service, better protecting areas ravaged by drugs and crime, write Security Correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe

Corkman Ciaran Baxter was one of over 300 people invited to attend National Missing Persons Day in Dublin.

Eve Kelliher checks out a Cork city apartment with a central location.

The new Agricultural Science Degree at University College Cork, delivered in collaboration with Teagasc, was launched by Agriculture Minister Michael Creed last week.

For the 11th year in a row, Cork City’s Glucksman gallery, located in the grounds of UCC, turns into a retail outlet this weekend in a show of support for craft designers and makers.

“It really is the highest form of respect to be given to any scientist,” says Madeline Hutchins of her great-great-grand-aunt Ellen Hutchins, who had a number of plants named after her.

The Chinese and Vietnamese nationals found dead in a container in England were ultimately victims of a society where people are objectified for profit, writes Vittorio Bufacchi.

A study has found that adults who disclose abuse they suffered when they were younger can end up “retraumatised” because of issues with how their disclosures are dealt with, including delays and poor communication.

The head of the HSE’s Addiction Services has warned that drug testing kits give a false sense of security.

New workshops for LGBT+ students, focusing on coming out in college, are to take place as part of Freshers Week this year at University College Cork (UCC) for the first time ever.

Researchers from University College Cork have found plastic on the seafloor at depths of more than 2km where even light has never penetrated.

Almost half of men who responded to recent survey had low health literacy, meaning they were less likely to know about methods to prevent getting cancer and other serious illnesses.

If anyone doubts that climate change is real, that it is happening now and that it is happening even faster than feared, they need go no further than the findings of an international study that shows climate change is occurring so rapidly that many animals may be unable to adapt.

Researchers at University College Cork are exploring the use of dogs in the justice system to help children who have been the victims of child sexual abuse.

Elaine Loughlin reported “Fianna Fáil leader wants the Dáil to go wild” in the article ‘Green welcome for FF’s wild proposal’ (Irish Examiner, June 14).

Barnardos has defended its choice of sponsor for its Big Toddle event after a group of high-level academics wrote a letter to the charity expressing concerns.

As stars and film-makers gather in Schull for the Fastnet Film Festival, some of the visitors tell Esther McCarthy about their favourite movies of all time.

Five Irish scientists, three of which are Cork based, have been selected by the Irish Research Council to represent the country in the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany this summer.

With the publication this week of the fifth interim report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, the disturbing spectre of the dead who were confined in those institutions of shame and segregation continues to haunt us.

Eve Kelliher looks at what’s happening in the worlds of art and interiors.

Dairygold has launched two annual bursaries for students undertaking the new BAgrSc at University College Cork when it starts in September.